Truth is the best defense and my fellowship

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by rayliotta

I only wish I could believe that that's how his audience saw it.

"In-groups" can be greatly reinforced by "out-groups" and "boogeymen". Steve Isitt can be useful to them in this way, as were John Ingalls and many others before him.

John Ingalls was never a bogeyman to those that knew him. This might have worked for a different generation. The trouble with SI is that anyone can go online and see for themselves.

[rayliotta]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

John Ingalls was never a bogeyman to those that knew him. This might have worked for a different generation. The trouble with SI is that anyone can go online and see for themselves.

Yes, but... I will raise this point again. Doctor my eyes have seen too many who have already "been online", as it were, seen it for themselves, yet what is their response? Take another puff, dig their head deeper in the sand, and go on, go on, go on, go on....

[rayliotta]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

John Ingalls was never a bogeyman to those that knew him. This might have worked for a different generation. The trouble with SI is that anyone can go online and see for themselves.

To put it another way, for as logical and rational as your theory is, it seems to me not very scientific.